Rock Island

• Product description

  A ribbon of zigzag lace with a yarnover selvedge forms the foundation for this pretty triangular shawl. Stitches picked up from the yarnovers take a few steadying ridges of garter stitch while decreases are established at the edges and spine, then begin to intermingle in a traditional two-sided lace pattern before relaxing into an ever-diminishing field of garter. This perfect balance of focused effort and straightforward plain knitting has made Rock Island an enduring favorite in the Brooklyn Tweed archives.

  Designer: Jared Flood
  
  Collection: Classics; Vale Launch 

   

• Pattern materials

  YARDAGE

  • 680 total yards of laceweight wool yarn

  
  

  YARN


  • 2 skeins Brooklyn Tweed Vale (100% American Rambouillet wool; 450 yards/50 grams)
  • Photographed in color Thaw

  
  

• Pattern specs

  CONSTRUCTION

  • This lace triangle is worked from the outside in, starting with the lace edging which is worked side-to-side with a yarn over selvedge. After the lace edging

    is completed, stitches for the main section of the triangle are picked up from the yarn over selvedge. The remainder of the piece is worked from the bottom up and shaped with decreases until only a few stitches remain at the top center of the triangle. To finish, these remaining stitches are grafted together.

  
  

  GAUGE

  • 16 stitches & 30 rows = 4″ in garter stitch, after blocking

  
  

  NEEDLES

  • One 32” circular needle in size needed to obtain gauge listed
  • Suggested Size: 4½ mm (US 7)

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 68” wingspan [172.5 cm] & 31” [78.5 cm] height at center spine
  • Measurements taken from relaxed fabric after blocking

  
  

  Please note: the stitch patterns in this shawl are charted only.

• Techniques

  Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

  • Kitchener Stitch (Grafting)

  
  

  
  

• Pattern Updates

  17 May 2017: Version 2.0

  Pattern updated with new photos and styling and re-gauged for Brooklyn Tweed's laceweight, Vale.

  
  

  2 April 2018: FRENCH Version 1.2

  TRICOTER LE TRIANGLE RG 1 (ENVERS) tricoter toutes les m. à l’endroit.
RG 2 (ENDROIT) 2 m. etc.

  
  

  24 May 2011: Version 1.1

  SK2P instructions updated on Legend to show RS and WS instructions; this symbol is worked the same way on both RS & WS. 

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